Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

This is one of the most frustrating things about politics and coverage of it at the moment.

This headline is so New York Times that it seems like a joke.

This case is absolutely horrific.

Davey’s letter highlights how quiet the other party leaders (including the literal PM) have been.

“What we are seeing is not about having a bad economy. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines.” Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social on.ft.com/4pq7NHo

I’m inclined to agree with this. It’s disturbing to see how explicit racism is becoming more acceptable, and the extent to which it is going unchallenged. I don’t know if it’s down to an increasingly fragmented media landscape, inertia of government, or what, but it is frightening.

Troubling piece (but excellent reporting) on the US far right billionaires funding Tommy Robinson and his revival observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…

I find it mind boggling that our entire political class seems to be ignoring this. Musk is the owner of a major media platform that - as we’ve seen - can shape media and political discourse. And the official response seems to be head in the sand.

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin. Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation. We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

A debate Labour badly needs to have:

In the real world, the last PM, a Conservative, actually defended this stuff, to the point of saying that British multiculturalism works and taking real political damage to do so. Some Labour people are so convinced of their superior virtue they don't seem to realise it's about what you *do*.

Who could possibly have foreseen?

Much of the media continue to allow Farage to elide the figures for all immigration with asylum seekers, and the reality for asylum seekers, who are prevented from working, with other immigrants. He is repeatedly enabled to blow immigration issues out of all proportion.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

What makes this even more frustrating is the Tories did exactly the same thing, and it was one of things that destroyed them at the expense of Reform. The mechanism is so obvious.

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is also the same with climate change by the way. Public concern about it goes up when it gets more coverage (ht @steveakehurst.bsky.social). Journalists have a moral and civic duty to cover the climate crisis extensively

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

this is right. Nobody, least of all anyone on the radical Left, should be pleased about the police - the *police* - having to sort this stuff out

Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.

So many names. It’s beyond belief.

Grim stories in this thread.

Starmer et al have repeatedly said that national security is the government's first responsibility. Last year's racist riots prove that the "dark turn" described below represents a clear, physical threat to minority communities. So why aren't they defending us now? Are they not our government too?

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

This is terrible. It sort of beggars belief that no government has properly got to grips with libel and hate spreading on online platforms, even as those platforms displace traditional media www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Concerned locals. Ordinary mums and dads. Just members of.. checks notes... Combat 18. standuptoracism.org.uk/robert-jenri...

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

Children from Gaza who need surgery have been taken to Jordan and Lebanon, but they can’t get surgery because they’re too malnourished to heal afterwards. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

This is appalling!

Arrests for peaceful protesting is obviously immoral but I can’t get over how stupid it is. There are viral videos of the Met dragging elderly women and pushing wheelchair users to a police van. If you’re looking for public support, a bit of discretion in who you’re arresting isn’t rocket science!

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Genuinely incredible that we've basically surrendered the phone call to scammers, and despite all major parties loudly announcing, they're tough on crime that no one is interested in campaigning on it.

Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.

Like many parents I look at the horrific photos from Gaza and think of my own kids - who by an accident of geography are safe and well fed. I feel their every distress so intensely and I can barely imagine the pain of parents of in Gaza, forced to powerlessly watch their children wither and die.

Watching a whole people starve to death because of Israeli policy and because of the inaction of our government is horrifying, and it is also destroying our souls, not just those of our politicians who could act and don’t, but those of all of us who are forced to watch and do nothing.

Unlike CEOs and other executives, individual contributors understand concert OPSEC

Excellent, gripping piece by Sophie Elmhirst about the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

It’s like they’re running out of norms to violate.

Thousands of Afghans were placed in direct danger of Taliban reprisal by a UK government data breach that the MoD then tried to cover up. This is shocking and there should be consequences for the officials involved www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is absolutely bonkers?! And surely will mean a huge proportion of their subscribers can no longer use the service.

Interesting and surprising story - Reform politician in Kent taking a pro-immigration stance on this particular issue.

“As news and current affairs journalists, we do not want to be on the right side of history; we want to be on the right side of now.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Pushing trickle down economics in 2025. Absolutely gobsmacking. TAX THE RICH YOU GUTLESS BASTARDS!!!